Conversations with Artists at Risk (AR)
Nr. 3 - Kholod Hawash

Kholod Hawash is an Iraqi artist. She was born in 1977 in Basra, Iraq. After many years in which she had to leave Iraq again and again to spend years in exile in Jordan, she has been living in Finlnd since 2019, where she found protection thanks to the support of Artists at Risk (AR). There she was finally able to pursue her artistic practice without restriction.


by Katinka Deecke
published on 09. April 2024

Kholod Hawash
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Kholod Hawash in conversation with Katinka Deecke


Show Notes

https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/573522/lap-see-lam-with-kholod-hawash-and-tze-yeung-hothe-altersea-opera/
https://www.modernamuseet.se/press/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/03/the-altersea-opera-pressrelease.pdf

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